THE REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY CRISIS SUSTAINS THE POPULIST FAR-RIGHT Apart from national tailwinds and the very nature of By moving away from the anti-EU the EP elections favouring the far-right in the age of mantra and by showing readiness to permacrisis, unresolved structural problems with the state of European democracy and the functioning of the have difficult conversations on divisive EU might. [...] In contrast, the Apart from the non-inscrits (NI), the most agreement index gauges the cohesiveness of voting incohesive families in the European choices within a group: the higher its value, the more cohesive the group.39 Figure 2 illustrates the results on Parliament are the ID and ECR groups, internal cohesion (or lack thereof) for the different EP while the Greens/EFA group emerges as the poli. [...] the Grand Coalition: the EPP, RE, and S&D), shows the highest degree of entropy and the lowest and in the case of the left-wing coalition (i.e. [...] In radicals.42 When moving further to the right over the contrast, the number of amendments sponsored past years on issues like immigration, the rule of law, by members of the ID group in the current EP and national security, and matching the populist right’s committees is strikingly low (see Figure 6). [...] Will specific policy files hold the key to understanding the real impact that more far-right forces in the next Parliament and a potentially fickle mainstream will have for the future At the European level, tensions are already brewing of the EU and European democracy? within the coalition of mainstream groups regarding, for example, disagreements over green policies.45 To assess the potential eff.
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